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Bob Wills: Milton Brown
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A year later, on February 9, 1932, Bob had the first recording session of his career. He, Milton Brown, Durwood Brown, and Clifton Johnson recorded tow sides for Victor in Dallas. Later that year O'Daniel made the band quit playing dances; this started a rift between Wills and O'Daniel. When Milton Brown quit over the decision concerning the dances, the rift grew much wider. Bob had to audition sixty-seven singers before he finally hired Thomas Elmer Duncan as his new vocalist. Later a disagreement over hiring and firing of band members and Wills' periodical drinking brought an end to the original Light Crust Doughboys.
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Bob left Turkey in 1929 and took up residence in Fort Worth. After a brief stint on radio he joined a traveling medicine show. While in it he met guitarist Herman Arnspiger and later teamed up with him to form the Wills Fiddle Band. They played for parties and private dances and ... performed on radio six days a week. In the fall of 1930 Wills and Arnspiger teamed with brothers Milton and Durwood Brown. The group then accepted an offer with WBAP, Fort Worth's most famous and powerful station, and adopted the name Aladdin Laddies.
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This epochal anthology begins with Bob Wills’ 1932 Victor recordings with Milton Brown as the Fort Worth Doughboys, then includes the complete Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys’ 1935-1947 sessions for ARC and Columbia. Tommy Duncan left the Doughboys at the same time as Wills and is the featured vocalist on the majority of these recordings. The recordings in this anthology include the original versions of songs that have become American music classics, such as San Antonio Rose, New San Antonio Rose, Spanish Two Step, Maiden’s Prayer, Steel Guitar Rag, Take Me Back To Tulsa, Roly Poly, Stay A Little Longer, Hang Your Head In Shame, Right Or Wrong, Trouble In Mind, Home In San Antone and Miss Molly.
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Radio exposure meant more dances with larger crowds and it led to the biggest break in Bob Wills' career. In 1931 Wills, Arnspiger and Milton Brown went to work for radio station KFJZ in Fort Worth. Their morning program was Photo from the collection of Ray Reed. sponsored by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and its major product, Light Crust Flour.
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